Photographer of Aerial, Building, Event and Portrait photographs, Goshen Indiana
I was very pleased today to learn that both of my photos I submitted to the 36th Elkhart Juried Regional Art Exhibition were accepted. I’m honored to again be a part of such a great exhibition. The Juried Regional will be open from Oct 10 – Dec 7. at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 South Main St. Elkhart IN. Please be sure to visit the Midwest Regional and view all the great art!
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Rail Yard – Aerial photography
Photo Credit to Danny Graber
June 2014 Wellfield Botanic Garden aerial photo shoot over Elkhart Indiana. 
Aerial photo jobs often yield some great bonus photos that have nothing to do with the official subject. This video highlights some of these “bonus shots” taken during a recent aerial photo shoot over Elkhart.
Thanks to Danny Graber and Randy Sharkey!
Summer Academy is a summer program for undeserved neighborhood youth in South Central Elkhart. The program is held at the Roosevelt Center, which is the former Roosevelt Elementary School.
I put together the video for LaCasa of Goshen.
Today, I went to Elkhart to take photos of LaCasa’s Rock the Block event. Rock the Block is a community based event focused on cleaning up (and fixing up) a specific block or area in Elkhart. People came together from various walks of life to accomplish the task at hand. People painted, raked, picked up trash, cut down trees and weeded to better the community at large.
See more photos HERE.
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Today, I stopped by the Elkhart Airport to snap photos of some airplanes a day before the annual War Bird Fly-Inn. When I arrived, there were a number of T-6 aircraft parked on the tarmac. I chatted with some pilots and then slowly made my way around the airplanes, looking for good photos. The sky was dull and full of clouds. I used fill flash on some photos and touched things up in Lightroom 5. I would love to return to the full airshow on Saturday but sadly have other commitments.
Air Supremacy Over Elkhart is an annual R/C Airshow featuring military and classic giant-scale R/C airplanes. This year’s event was held Sept. 12-14 at the Elkhart Airport and I was invited to come by and take photos. While radio controlled airplanes can be fun to watch and fly (I used to fly them myself), taking photos of them can quickly become monotonous. Generally speaking, they take-off, fly in a big oval for a while and then land. The photographer is not allowed to freely roam-around to “work the shot” but is instead delegated to the same small area as the pilot controlling the airplane. I threw the camera in shutter priority mode (1250-1600/sec), set Auto Focus to AI Servo, turned on high speed shooting and manually set my ISO to 640 to ensure a moderate aperture (and a reasonable depth of field). Then, using my 70-300 zoom lens I took a million boring photos (actually not all where boring, see above).
Since I was stuck taking photos from one vantage point, my only option for better photos was to change my subject, but how? A friendly pilot took his turn flying and I struck up conversation with him. I told him that I wanted to see more of the top of his plane and perhaps he could do a barrel roll or side-slip. He obliged and I was awarded with some better photos (see below).
I also got some decent photos of guys working on their airplanes, joking around, etc. It was a great day for flying and a super opportunity for photography. See more photos HERE.
